Michel Hazanavicius Quotes

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

I guess George Clooney would be a wonderful silent actor, and Leonardo DiCaprio is such a wonderful actor he certainly could do it.

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.

I guess all the directors in France are influenced by Hitchcock, because he's the perfect visual director, in my eyes.

I think the writer is always the creator, because he's starting with nothing, but the actor comes in and gives flesh and blood.

There are two kinds of audiences. There's the ones who were in the theaters, and the ones who are outside and we want them to come inside the theater. And, it's not the same.

An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

But sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable.

French people are strange about America, I think.

I'm very happy in France making movies.

When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.

Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet.

Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies

There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

I want to thank three person: I want to thank Billy Wilder. I want to thank Billy Wilder. And I want to thank Billy Wilder.

I make almost all the decisions on set and have to deal with all the financial aspects.

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.

Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately, it will come out great

I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.